Teen Vogue, a magazine and an arm of the Resistance which mainly targets the young women of generations Y and Z, has changed a lot since it debuted during my ‘tween years. Then, being Conde Nast’s higher-fashion answer to Seventeen, it mostly seemed to run stories about livening up a “blah” outfit with a waist-cinching belt. (One I particularly remember from circa 2006 promoted quirky cross-seasonal layering which I promptly attempted—wearing a turtleneck under a strapless gingham dress—and still regret.)
Young girls today, or so Teen Vogue’s more recent editorial pivot toward left-leaning politics suggests, are deeper and more certain of their politics than I was at their age. They’re interested in more than high-risk style tips. Which is why the now online-only magazine publishes stories about the Standing Rock protests, why we should be just as worried about Mike Pence, and how to protest President Trump with your nail polish. And, last week, a story on the underpinnings of anarchism, which is more than just a punk rock posture. Or so the author Kim Kelly, herself a member of New York’s Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, argues.
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